Past Workshops

Speaker: Aila Matanock, Ph.D. Candidate of Political Science, Stanford University

Field: Comparative Politics

Aila Matanock is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Stanford University. She is also a pre-doctoral fellow at both the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) and the Miller Center of Public Affairs. Her research examines governance and civil conflict with a focus on international intervention.

Speaker: Henry R. Nau, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University

Field: International Relations

Henry R. Nau is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University. He directs the US-Japan-South Korea Legislative Exchange Program, semiannual meetings between Members of the US Congress, Japanese Diet, and Korean National Assembly. He holds a B.S.

Chris Tausanovitch is a fifth-year Phd Candidate studying American Politics, Representation, Public Opinion, Congress, and Methodology. His dissertation uses Item Response Theory to model the political preferences of Americans and their legislators, combining information from six large sample surveys and one smaller original survey for a total sample size of more than 300,000 people.